The reality that the electric dealer must face the tax

Several facts that should not be neglected in the taxation of electricity dealers

During this time, the research on the tax policy of e-commerce has received more and more attention from society. The taxation of electric dealers is not only directly related to the immediate interests of the millions of internet merchants, but also has far-reaching impact on the development of E-commerce in China and the economic and social transformation that it brings. Personally participated in a number of related discussions, it is necessary to point out the following facts for policy researchers and stakeholders to refer to.

1, in recent years, China's e-commerce despite the growth of the city, rapid development, but so far, has not changed it is still in the initial stage of development of the fact. Ali retail platform Taobao and the cat, 2012 online sales, although the breakthrough of 1 trillion, but in the same period of social sales volume of the total retail share is still only 6%. Ma Yun and Wang betting on the future, rather than now this early stage. It would be premature to introduce a levy on electricity dealers in advance.

2, at first glance, a total sales of a trillion-scale economy, if not tax seems to be the loss of national income, but if the structure of the detailed analysis, perhaps the fact is not many people think so simple. Ali retail platform, now about 7 million network operators, its small and medium-sized micro-net business accounted for the absolute majority (according to Arrey official data, Taobao sellers only own 1 people accounted for 58%, 5 of the following accounted for 97%; Cat sellers employees 3-20 people accounted for 81%), in other words, The absolute majority is the self-employed and the driven job-seekers through the Internet. Many people choose to use the Internet as their business because they can rely on them for a living. If the tax breaks their livelihoods, the state will add to the unnecessary pressures of unemployment and social unrest.

3, Ali retail platform on the total scale of more than a trillion of sales, in fact, the mass fragmentation of the small list of cumulative results. Simple calculations can know, 7 million net business average down, each household net business annual sales amount but about 150,000 yuan, monthly 10,002 (Ali official data, Taobao annual sale within 200,000 of 84%). I don't have their average gross margin data, I also know that this ratio will vary due to the product, but I understand the situation in some places, especially because grassroots network operators choose to enter the market low threshold of products to do, more participants, their gross margin becomes very thin, if the gross margin of 10% or so ( Like many of Sha's nets, their monthly gross income is no more than thousand dollars. Taxing them, the result is likely to be lays.

4, "The Big network business, should not also tax it?" Indeed, there are also more and more network operators have sprung up a number of tens of millions of millions of large network operators, especially in the cat platform gathered in the retail network Gaofu, but the fact is that the state has taxed these people. Day Cat and Taobao Bazaar different, the seller into the day cat, one of the premises is required to business registration, as a compliance registration of enterprises, tax is the problem should be the meaning. It can be seen that "there is no tax on e-commerce", in fact, not in line with the facts.

5. In addition, policy researchers need to note another important fact: in the current market conditions, the network in the development process, there is a dynamic mechanism for the active tax. With more and more online sellers, open shop easy to do the disaster, many in the Taobao market open shop small sellers, developed to a certain time, in order to get more traffic, transactions and income, they will take the initiative to land cats, for this, they are willing to take the initiative to business registration and tax. There is an intrinsic connection between the scale of the network business and the tax payment. The idea that they can do so much in the long term without paying taxes is actually a misunderstanding of the market.